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Contrabandistas, marimberos y mafiosos (1994) covers Darío Betancourt and Martha Luz García's 1994 social history of the Colombian mafia: its authors, the research behind it, its argument, what its section on the Caribbean coast says about the marijuana crop, its contents and how later writers have used it. The trade itself is treated in Bonanza marimbera.
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- The book. The article rests on the first edition: its credits page, acknowledgments, Rodrigo Uprimny's prologue, the introduction, the section on the coastal "focus" in chapter 2 and the chapter on opium poppy.
- Later use. Lina Britto's Marijuana Boom (2020) for how the book has been cited.
Where the sources disagree
- The dates of the boom. The book gives several. It cites the financial institutions' association ANIF (1979) for growing in the Sierra Nevada since 1920 and for commercial plantings general by about 1965; it puts the serious growth of the trade from 1970 and the first contacts with American buyers in 1968–1970; its chronology dates the bonanza marimbera to 1976–1985; and it dates the decline from 1978–1979. The article gives the dates the coastal section uses.
- The 1947 seed. The book states that the spread of marijuana followed the import of Indian hemp seed in 1947 (pp. 225 and 255; p. 224 prints "1974"). Lina Britto (2020) reports the same story as a rumour for which she found no evidence either way.
- An independent witness? The description of planting, drying, packing and grading on the coast cites José Cervantes Angulo's La noche de las luciérnagas (1980) and follows its wording closely, so it is not a second witness to what Cervantes Angulo reports.
- The Peace Corps story. The coastal section repeats the story that Peace Corps volunteers named "Colombian Gold" and "Santa Marta Gold", citing two earlier works. Britto lists these pages among the works that present the volunteers as pioneers of the trade, a view she rejects.